THE Federal Polytechnic, Ede, has trained over 4,000 final year students on various agricultural programmes with a view to accelerating youth’s agricultural entrepreneurship skill. The agricultural programme, which was meant to make the students self-reliant, […]
Hey, like a thief in the night, 50 long years have crept up on the Department of Mass Communication of the University of Lagos, and the body of its alumni, the UNILAG Mass Comm Alumni […]
“Only in Nigeria would we usher into the Villa foreign businessmen whose sole business is importation of toothpaste or bottled water or tomato paste or baby milk” –Bolaji Akinyemi, University of Ibadan Convocation Lecture, November […]
A few days ago, the Federal Government announced the establishment of eight new private universities in the country. The new universities are Anchor University, Lagos; Arthur Jarvis University, Cross River State; Clifford University, Abia State; […]
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) (ASUU) has vowed to proceed on its warning strike in spite of the senate’s intervention. The National Executive Council (NEC) of ASUU had on Monday issued a circular urging […]
Academics fear a threat to research, funding and overseas recruitment Like many Britons, John Martin, who holds professorships in advanced medicine at University College London (UCL) and Yale in the United States, was asleep when […]
George Santayana, American poet and philosopher it was who said that “those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Africans in general did not start to write their own history until […]
The Governing Council of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, has sacked three whistleblowers who spearheaded a petition to the anti-graft agency, EFCC, against the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Olusola Oyewole. The petitioners accused […]
Dr. David Oyedepo, the Bishop of the Living Faith Church worldwide, has appealed to those criticising the school fees charged by Covenant University to desist to avoid incurring the wrath of God. Oyedepo, in a […]
“It is unacceptable for any school to carry on providing poor education over a period that can take up to a large part of a child’s career, and deprive the child of future prospects and […]
Pat Utomi (Professor of Political Economy) My take on this is that this is not a good time to score the President one way or the other. We are in a national emergency. The country […]
Well, I will be happy to read people’s views and I will do what the majority wants. My position, however, is that none of them will do it. It is a combination. The tertiary institutions […]
The adverse socio-economic situation in the country has driven 53-year-old Alice Madumere Chikezie, a mass communication graduate from Lagos State University,LASU, into welding. Alice, who hails from Abia State,explained that she had refused to go […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has hinted that it may cancel the use of uniform cut-off points for admitting candidates that took the Universities Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
Without losing sight of the significant ground to be covered to institutionalise open contracting, my colleagues and I are encouraged by the gradual culture shift from a closed to an increasingly open system, one year […]
A typical day for 13-year-old Abdulrahman Ismail, a resident of Samaru Zaria, starts at 5 a.m. After the Muslim morning prayers, Abdulrahman sets out for his daily menial job at the gate of the main […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has scrapped the use of scratch cards for any of its transactions and services, describing it as “archaic,” its Registrar/Chief Executive, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, has announced. He also demanded […]
The Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr Idiat Adebule, says teachers have the capacity to make Nigeria a powerful and well-educated country, in spite of current challenges.Adebule, who is also the Commissioner for Education, made the […]
The Nigerian education environment is a tapestry of cultures and curricula imported from different climes around the globe. There are a plethora of so called international schools around populated by children of civil servants, ‘ex […]
Within the last three months, the Academic Staff Union of Universities and many of its zonal chapters have put their grievances with federal and state governments in the public domain, largely through academic conferences and […]
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